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The Chronicles of Covent™ is proud to reveal the final cover for Path of the Magi, Book One of the Adventure Series. A special thanks to Illich Henriquez for bringing the cover to completion. Davril’s warmagi hood is now visible as is his sword blazing with magic. In addition, Festan has his horns and Edronius’ stylish robe/gladiator armor combination is finally finished. The volcanoes now look especially sharp and the tower cities are now all uniform. As an added bonus, our Dragon Priest on the rear also has a wicked magical effect. Killer job Illich!

The Kindle edition is already available. The softcover is coming soon and the other ebook editions will also follow within the next few months. This story follows Davril and Edronius, a magician and a warrior mage type as they leave a magic school run by the legendary Phendyrimoth. Their departure starts them on a series of quests and experiences that will prepare them for the Triloriad™. We are very excited to finally be delving more in-depth into magic in our world, which will play a crucial role in the Triloriad and houses many layers and hidden secrets. Pay attention to a few of the background characters because a few of them will prove far more important in time and will have their own books coming out.

See the blog dated November 22nd to learn more about Davril and Edronius. As for Festan, Merrymaker Extraordinaire and Minstrel at Large, many of you already met him during his cameo in Shade One: Waiting Game. But finally Illich has given us a face to go with his jovial name. Festan has a larger than life personality and was loads of fun to write, so don’t miss the free chapter sample. We also have Jaruk and Janil, who will be drawn on a later cover. Jaruk is a giant of man with a bear sized heart and temper, while Janil is a skilled heroine and his devoted wife. I’d define them as free spirits, mercenaries with morals if you will, but they have a great bond and brave hearts.

A few readers have expressed their desire to see some more traditional heroes, or people who would be easier to root for. Given that Shade is a dark-hooded assassin, the Elves are so embroiled in a horrible war, the Adventure Series was always meant to contain such heroes. We have yet to unveil a few of our greatest heroes who will play major roles in the Triloriad™, but this small band of adventurers boasts several major noble characters who are of chief importance, so here you go. Plus, this book lays the groundwork for my favorite race of all Covent. Just as Tolkien had a heart for the hobbits, there is a race I am building to which has also captured my imagination and deepest sense of fun.

Now I’d like to take this opportunity to plug a new major villain introduced in this book. This is Graven.He serves as the main antagonist of Path of the Magi, other than the obvious horde of dragon men that have swarmed the cover. Graven is a magehunter consumed with his desire for vengeance, driven by his rage and hatred for all magic users. He is a deadly bounty hunter immune to most magic arts, making him a grave threat to any magic user. His family was burned alive by a warlock, who went mad with power in his pursuit of the Greater Powers. Graven’s body and face was burned beyond recognition and his family lost.

Graven is a complex point-of-view character, one who I think readers will thoroughly enjoy. His rage is justified, but his obsession with wiping out all magic users shows the cancer that can eat away at a soul when consumed by vengeance. Expect Graven to play a major role in the Adventure Series and I hope you enjoy reading him as much as we enjoyed writing him. A special thanks to Nestor Cruz, one of our fabulous volunteer artists, for providing Graven’s wickedly good concept art.

I’ve uploaded a couple sample chapters to the Chronicles of Covent homepage. Davril & Edroinus are featured on pages: 1 to 23. Festan is featured on pages: 23 to 28. And are dark embittered Graven is featured on pages: 33 to 39. Click here to download.

Greetings blog readers! I’m sorry it’s been so long since we’ve given an update, but our cover for our newest novel Path of the Magi was in a state of flux for nearly a year. As result, our book was delayed and part of me grew so disenchanted with the whole experience I had began to wonder whether this cover would ever be completed. I’m happy to say that we are back on track and the cover has been completed. Nevertheless, my schedule was crazy the last month, so I didn’t get a chance to share until now, so this blog will come in two stages to bring you all up to speed.

Now Ben Wootten poured more work into the cover over a series of months. Ben did a fantastic job on designing the Drakor, the dragon men, who live in the volcanic mountains of Doruggdoom. The details on the dragon priest and Drakoran soldiers are all top-notch. The rear cover looks out of this world good and the redesign on the tower cities is masterful. The dragon men live in tower cities that cap the mountain peaks, making these tall looming fortresses nearly impregnable. Every year other races are hunted down and carried off in nets to be put to work as slaves in the mines of Doruggdoom. This design truly encapsulate the dread and doom a person might feel when gazing upon the tower cities from a distance.

We were truly excited for all these additions and we waited eagerly the next draft. Then came the bad news about two months ago. Ben Wootten sincerely apologized, but after struggling with the front of the cover he was turning the project back over to us unfinished. Ben was tied up with film projects and was traveling to various movie sets, making it difficult for him to complete the cover. In addition, he had to take some personal time off as well due to some sort of crisis that presented further barriers to him completing the project.

Now before we all go blaming Ben Wootten for this, I will say to his credit that he took the cover this far and did not charge us a penny. That said, we were left with a incomplete and unusable cover. The rear looks like awesome sauce, but the front is a big problem. The front cover is of course the most imporant part of the drawing for a novel and as you can see here it’s missing some very important details. Edronius has no wrist, Festan has no face and poor Davril didn’t even get a head! Oh dear.

I spent another few months scouring Deviantart.com and talked to many other big named artists. Of course, they were either booked up or wanted to start over from scratch and our book was being delayed with every conversation. After much looking I was able to locate another artist, Ilich Henriquez, out of Germany who’s art style was similar to Ben Wootten’s own. Ilich has done some commissions for Fantasy Flightgames. One of my favorite pieces he did for them is right here. Two of my other favorite pieces were his Drizzt fan art, which sold me on his abilities and are put on display in these two shining examples: sample one and two. Now Ben Wootten was kind of enough to send us the layered file so Illich picked up where Ben left off. Here’s the first draft of Illich’s edits and I am quite happy with the results.

Finally our heroes are starting to take shape!!! Davril and Edroinius look stellar! Festan looks great too and Ilich is finalizing even more great details on our brave hereos. Very well done faces and great hair! I feel funny in saying that, but Ilich has truly got a talent for hair, which only seems to accentuate the characters and the sense of conflict in the piece. I can’t wait to see where Illich takes the cover from here.

Ilich also added some nice details to the Drakor, the dragon men. The dragon priest looks even scarier sporting a even larger wyvern skull mask and the Drakoran warriors’ armor is shinnier and even more spikey. We decided to move some objects around, so readers could get a better look at the tower city and added an even larger horde of Drakor hovering around the gloomy superstructures. And finally Ilich detailed the rock and background with more to come. Illich also said he’s still playing with lighting and particle effects, so expect a few more improvements in later drafts.

This progress has got me so pumped again I’m jumping back on the promotion wagon. Given how long we waited before, I had to hold back on updates and advertising because our book release was so up in the air. Stay tuned for part two of this blog entry and samples, samples coming within the next few weeks, since I have finally gotten some time to sit down and blog.Sssssp…Kindle Users may want to check Amazon for a special early release version of Path of the Magi.

Greetings Chronicles of Covent® readers! Above is another world famous design Ben Wootten completed for the iconic Lord of the Rings movies, the legendary Nazgul, or more commonly known as Ringwraiths. I apologize for the lack of updates, but the cover for Path of the Magi was delayed due to unforeseen events outside the control of Mirror Images Publishing. Ben Wootten was hard at work on the cover in the early spring, but events occurred in his life that required some emergency time off. Of course, as important as the cover was to me, real life needs trump art covers. Begrudgingly, I accepted and explained I understood, wishing him the very best. I’m glad to say Ben is doing much better now, but this left the project in a state of flux for several months.

In the meantime, I embarked on a personal quest to find a replacement artist of Ben’s caliber, hoping to take our artwork to the next level. This began three frustrating months of tireless searching, which sadly yielded too few results. As result, I had no answers and no answers meant no blog updates. However, time has proved to be the healer of all wounds. Ben and I have recently reconnected. He is back at work and has taken the project back up. He has completed a couple extreme rough draft variations, of which I shall show off here. Please keep in mind this is a work in progress.This is the first draft we received, more an extreme rough of the cover, but already even in simple blotchy inks you can see the extent of Ben Wootten’s gifts. The scene is truly epic, the fiery mountains of Doruggdoom is the setting. Plumes of black smoke rise from the black basalt, volcanic mountain range choked with fire and brimstone. Lava flows down the mountainsides snaking and pooling into lakes and rivers of terrible hot burning magma. This is where the climax of Path of the Magi takes place.

There are no roads in Doruggdoom. The homelands to the winged race of Drakor, or dragon men, as you may have read in other novels have no need for such land based conveniences. Their legendary tower cities rise up like gigantic spires of death from the jagged mountain peaks. Each tower is a superstructure housing thousands of dragon men. The hordes of Drakor swoop down from the Dragongates suspended hundreds of feet high from the tower cities, patrolling their dark lands and capturing prisoners in nets to be made slaves or sacrificed on the black altars.

There is no escape from the tower cities of Doruggdoom, with no land based gates or lacking many common stairwells, it is said escape from Drakoran slavery is impossible. The tower cities are also virtually impregnable. Footed in the mountain peaks, any siege forces face an impossible uphill battle to the tower cities, with no gate to lay siege. Tens of thousands of soldiers have lost their lives trying to attack such terrible pillars of construction.

As you can see here, we went with more a portrait look on this draft of the new cover. A classic fantasy cover, this concept portrayed three of our heroes: Davril, Edronius and Festan. Many of you may have recognized Festan La Faun, Merrymaker Extraordinaire and Minstrel at Large, as he calls himself. For those of you who have been asking about this Faun since his cameo in Shade I: Waiting Game, yes, Festan is a far more important character than the small comedic role he played in Shade’s first novel. Festan’s antics and tendency to see the world through rose petals adds a lot of fun to our first adventure novel and shows the dark consequences of living too carefree in a dark and dangerous world.This is a second option for the cover. In this draft we decided to go for a more action-oriented approach. Given the Drakor are swarming our heroes, it does seem a little strange that the companions might pause for a Kodak moment. This option adds a bit more danger and suspense to the cover. It also ties the entire scene together from the back to front cover a bit more organically. I love the Drakor swooping down to strike Davril’s raised shield and Edronius’ pose, once the magic is added, will certainly heighten the sense of action and adventure.

Now let’s learn a bit more about Davril and Edronius themselves. Besides a few small parts, magic has played a very minor role in our other novels published so far. Magic has been more a tool of a hero or a weapon of a foe, but we haven’t delved too deeply into the arts of magic in the world of Covent just yet. Magic is at the heart of the struggle in the Triloriad™ itself and has vast effects on our lands. We’ll start exploring the beginnings of the vast mysteries of magic in the Adventure Series, learning more and more with each new novel. Much of the detail is disturbing and shocking, building until eventually it hangs over Covent like a threat of nuclear proportions.

That’s all I’ll say for now. Edronius is a red robed mage. Schooled in all the arts of both the light and dark magics, he represents the balance of magic. He has a full arsenal of spells and combination magic at his disposal, although his personality is a bit wild and rebellious. Edronius is good at heart, but thirsts for adventure, a trait which his best friend Davril both loves him for and grows wary of. Edronius grew up near the coliseum in Doljinaar where he spent a lot of time play fencing with gladiators. His father was a famous trapper who traveled the lands capturing impressive beasts for the games. Edronius journeyed with his father on many of these hunting expeditions developing a constant need to put his boots to the road and strike out into the world.

Davril, on the other hand, likes more order and predictability in his life. A son of a Doljinnarian soldier who fell in the line of duty, Davril is well disciplined. An expert swordsman trained at the same infamous magic tower as Edronius, he mixes his blade with magic. Davril is a kind of a warrior mage with a good head on his shoulders, but he is also a powerful caster. A natural leader and levelheaded filter for Edronius’ crazy ideas, the pair have formed a powerful combo. Expect to learn far more about the depths of magic and its consequences on our world in future Chronicles of Covent novels.

To learn more about Path of the Magi, read on our website. Samples to be put online soon! More updates to come as Ben Wootten’s cover progresses. In other news, Kindle is running a sale on The Last Field of Honor, Book One of the Elf Wars Trilogy. For a limited time it is on sale for only 99 cents! The linkage is here. Now to decide on which cover design to go with. Mmmmmmmm. Decisions. Decisions…

The Chronicles of Covent® is proud to announce a major new art alliance! Sadly, Rob Joseph, who did the cover for Shade 3, is tied up with other projects, so we have had to look into other options. After canvassing many other capable artists, we have received a major opportunity to work with a big name artist. The Chronicles of Covent® is honored to be working with Ben Wootten on our next cover for Path of the Magi, which is the first in our new adventure line of tales.

Ben Wootten’s laundry lists of achievements are remarkable and he has completed artwork for many major brands and iconic films we all know and love. Ben’s past clients include Star Wars TCG, Wizards of the Coasts, World of Warcraft TCG, Everquest, Dungeons and Dragons RPG, Pathfinder RPG, Paizo Publishing and many more. Ben worked for Weta Workshop for 10 years. During his time at Weta, Ben was smack dab in the middle of the art design for major motion pictures such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson’s King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Ben was the co-creater of the Peter Jackson’s Balrog you see facing Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad Dum. In fact, Ben is also credited with the design for The Ringwraith and Steed, Strider’s sword, Gandalf’s Glamdring and many more. By the time Ben Wootten worked on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he was the head of design at Weta Workshop for the Narnia films. To learn more about Ben’s accolades, check out this interview with Weta Workshop which speaks about much of his work on the films.

Many of Ben Wootten’s sculptures/collectibles from the LOTR films can be purchased at Weta Workshop’s website. Well, the ones that aren’t already sold out. Most of his movie collector’s items were auctioned off for thousands of dollars. Ben recently completed two killer art prints for Weta, which can be purchased here and here for a steal price. The first is an astounding picture of the Balrog’s epic battle against Gandolf and the second is a breathtaking scenic revisitation to Bag’s End at the Shire. Gandolf is knocking at Bilbo’s door. Ah, the memories…

We couldn’t be more excited to be working with Ben Wootten and will post pictures of the artwork as it progresses. Stay tuned for more blog updates in the near future. Now about Path of the Magi. It is first book in our Adventure Series line of tales that features a more traditional quest for a party of heroes. For readers wanting a lighter fare from Covent, as opposed to our dark and foreboding Shade series or the terribly sad and tragic Elf Wars trilogy, this new adventure series is for you.

Path of the Magi dives into the world of magicians and its struggle due to the abolishment of magic in Doljinaar. For those of you looking for more noble traditional heroes, this book is for you. The Adventure Series will also introduce more heroes and villains who will play a major role in our grand epic saga The Triloriad™. Since we released Shade One, readers have been begging for more Festan La Faun, Merrymaker Extraordinaire and Minstrel at Large. Our readers’ hunch that Festan is a major character was completely correct and his appearance in Waiting Game was more a cameo than a one-off. I just couldn’t resist throwing Mr. Dark and Grim Shade in with the happy-go-lucky Faun for a few scenes. Expect plenty of Festan in Path of the Magi.

On the more serious side, Path of the Magi will introduce several important mages, warriors and a dark vengeance-fueled villian. The Greater Powers of magic have left many, many wounds upon the world. More details to come. Ben Wootten is already hard at work on the cover. Here’s a sneak peak of the work in progress…a very, very rough draft, but it already has us foaming at the mouth. Nothing like seeing our dragon priest come to life in a full coat of glorious chain mail robes. Thanks Ben!

You can learn more about Path of the Magi at our preview link here. Sample chapters to come! Look to the blog to reveal more info and Wootten art snapshots in the coming months. You can see more of Ben Wootten’s jaw-dropping art pieces on his website:http://benwootten.daportfolio.com/

The Chronicles of Covent is proud to present the official cover art to the highly anticipated Shade III: The Weeping Grounds. Our new artist Rob Joseph has loaded this cover with as much grit, mood and just plain attitude we’ve always wanted to see in our covers. We hope you appreciate Shade’s anger and intensity on this cover as much as we do.

Shade III: The Weeping Grounds is a rare story. The infamous Unseen Assassin has allowed himself to be captured by the Slavelords of the Black Ring. He is forced to endure unimaginable pain and harsh treatments in order to reach the high-profile marks that lie at the end of his dark journey. Shade is playing possum in the most dangerous gamble of his life and yet not even he is prepared for the trials and tribulations that await him.

From the release of Shade I: Waiting Game, we’ve often been asked by fans and reviewers the purpose in making Shade so invincible? Covent is a world teeming with many memorable characters, at all stages of walks in life. Shade starts out at the peak of his career and is the world’s top assassin. He was meant to appeal to readers who love a good bad @$$ character who walks into a bar and takes out everyone. We started Shade here by design.

J. E. and I were great fans of these kinds of characters in our younger high school days. However, these kinds of high testosterone-pumped portrayals in modern film, rarely have time to deal with real life fallout and consequences that comes with this kind of living. Shade’s over-arching story will delve deeply into the cold hard callous life of an assassin, the increasing burden of blood guilt and the high risk living that teeters on the edge of destruction.

Shade stands atop a mountain of his own accomplishments. He has no other place to go but down. The question remains how many times he’ll be able to get back up again after he is brought to his knees. Shade II: Kingsblood challenged him harder than any trial he had ever faced before, but he was able to overcome. In Shade III: The Weeping Grounds Shade is encountered by forces so powerful and beyond his control that he is faced with the demoralizing horror of his own helpless mortality. How Shade will deal with these forces will be a big part of the continuing Shade saga. And so without further ado here is the full color cover for Shade III: The Weeping Grounds.To read more about the exciting upcoming release and whet your appetite with a free sampler. Click here:

It’s been a while! I apologize for my lengthy absence on the blog. I’ve been hard at work on Shade III: The Weeping Grounds, which is entering into it’s third round of proofing to take us to the final draft. I am EXTREMELY excited about this book since it takes Shade out of his element leaving him broken and beaten. The full broken humanity of Shade’s character is in many ways put on trial in this book and this is Shade like you have never seen him before! More on that in a few minutes…

I’m afraid I’ve done also done a terrible job promoting the release of our latest book: The Last Field of Honor, Book One of the Elf Wars Trilogy. The Last Field of Honor has been out on the market since early this year and is doing fairly well. It seems a lot of folks have been impatient for Shade III, so that’s where I’ve been pouring most of my time. That and the birth and early life of the beautiful new addition to our family. Don’t get me wrong. The Elf Wars Trilogy is a great set of books and will introduce many mega-important characters to the Triloriad™ itself, but it seems many of my readers have grown more attached to Shade himself, at least for now. You can find the purchase links for The Last Field of Honor available in all major formats here.

Now about Shade III: The Weeping Grounds!

Shade allows himself to be captured by his next targets, the Slavelords of the Black Ring. He is stripped down, flogged and shackled with the lines of other caught night mortal slaves loaded onto a slave ship and shipped across the Sea of Mourning. He is forced to suffer countless horrors and abuses on his long perilous journey to his true targets. He is forced to bide his time, playing possum, swallowing his anger and desire to strike back, while the ship takes him ever closer to his true targets…the Slavelords of the Black Ring…

Shade has carefully laid his plans, prepared for every possible contingent in his plot to take out the Slavelords of the Black Ring. And yet not even he can fathom the vast sea of horrors that await him… For powers lurk in the elder planes, ancient powers long forgotten by the fragile mortal constructs of this world. His nights are haunted by dreams and torments. His days are haunted by heralds and visions. The very seas cry out for his blood. The very clouds weep for Shade’s soul. Shade is in for his most harrowing adventure yet…

Bloodthirsty sea monsters lurk in the great depths. Winged shadows swoop down from the mountains looking to settle old scores. And the greatest evil lies buried in the deep bowels of this world, locked away, forgotten until Shade finally encounters a foe that not even his capable hand can slay. Shade finds himself reduced to but a small mortal worm, wriggling in between the wars of gods and Elder Dragons. Shade III is like no Shade book before it…

You can learn more about Shade III at our preview link here. Includes the first three sample chapters of the Weeping Grounds to whet your appetites! I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until this winter to enjoy the full book, but look to the blog to reveal more juicy details and excerpts about the exciting new installment in the Shade saga. If you’re wondering who drew this awesome new Shade III artwork. Check out our amazing new artist, Rob Joseph, at his kicking website: http://www.rob-joseph.com/

Greetings blog readers! I’m excited to announce that we have completed The Last Field of Honor, the first book in the Elf Wars Trilogy. It is over 300 hundred pages and our longest, most character packed book yet. Due to the runaway sales on the Kindle platform, we have agreed to do an early release of the Last Field of Honor, exclusively to the Kindle platform in exchange for better marketing position and more exposure. It is available now.

The Last Field of Honor will launch on all other e-device platforms at our usual launch window of early next year. We apologize for the wait on other formats, but Kindle sales have blown the other formats away. We’ve rec’d advise from many successful authors that utilizing this exclusive deal was instrumental in helping them find their audience, which is every author’s biggest challenge. That said, the terms of our exclusive agreement with Amazon does not prevent us from putting out a softcover earlier, so look for the book in about a month or so. The agreement is three months long, making The Last Field of Honor available on all formats early 2014.

The Last Field of Honor introduces more key heroes and villains who will play a part whether for good or evil in the Triloriad™. The Elf Wars also entertain the prospect of an age old war, one that has gripped the two Elvish societies leaving them teetering on the brink of annihilation. I’ve always wanted to explore this concept. What would an age old war look like? How deeply would the seeds of anger burn? What rules of warfare would the enemy nations agree to grant small but necessary reprieves from the endless war? How many sons can two nations bury before they just don’t remember what they’re fighting for anymore?

Elves seemed the obvious choice for such a war. In modern fantasy tradition Elves, live longer than other races. They count days and years far more slowly than men. The Last Field of Honor pits the Elves of the golden forests of Jui-Rae, against the Dark Elves of the black forests of Jui-Sae. This is our reader’s first extended chance to explore Shade’s homeland. It also fosters an adversarial relationship that will clash with key characters beyond the Elf Wars and into the Triloriad™ itself. There are still MANY important Elvish Trioriad™ characters.

Dark Elves have been a part of ancient mythology since Norse Mythology. J. R.R. Tolkien used the term to represent Elves that were somehow tainted by tolerating the shadows of Melkor. We’ve always been fans of the original Drow, who live in subterranean cities and were wholly evil, but we wanted to do something different. We decided putting our Dark Elves on the surface put them more in conflict with Elves who traditionally live in breathtaking forest kingdoms.

Our Elves live in Jui-Rae, a majestic golden wood with glowing Sunfire Trees, gold grasses and fiery flowers that steal the breath away. They have tall sunstone palace cities and quaint tranquil forest villages. Their borders are guarded by silent and patient rangers who perch in the trees, arrows ready, using flares to expose Unseen crossing enemy lines from Jui-Sae. Their nights light up with that sporadic flashing of flare arrows like bursts of lightning.

Jui-Rae’s beauty is legendary all over Covent. Humans and other light races come from all over the world just for a glimpse of the legendary Elvish kingdom. It is beautiful everywhere except for the south in the Ashwood, burned out long ago into both Jui-Rae and Jui-Sae, but you’ll have to read the story to find out how the Ashwood came to be…

The Dark Elves as result, needed a befitting forest kingdom which borders and is in a constant state of war with Jui-Rae. And so we first envisioned the frightening black forests of Jui-Sae, a dark wood of black-leaved and black-barked trees. A dark and mysterious border guarded by the Unseen, of a similar order to Shade, assassins who could go invisible and who lay in constant wait, ready to cut down any trespasser.

I’ve received quite a few compliments from fans on this little excerpt from Shade I: Waiting Game. A lot of readers who from this tiny blip alone want to visit Jui-Sae, and so this book is your first chance. To quoteth Shade I, chapter three, “A hedge of fear surrounded Jui-Sae, fear of its Unseen Guardians and the grisly testament of its bone-littered landscape sent men running from its borders. But Shade knew the shadowy murders were nothing but a grim warning to keep other races out of Jui-Sae, for his people sheltered many secrets. In truth Jui-Sae was a land of dark and inviting beauty, a land of rich black trees lit up by fields of midnight flowers and starlit glades…a breathtaking night kingdom where magnificent moonstone cities glowed majestically in the moonlight.”

In addition we liked the idea of Dark Elves not having to be wholly evil. Yes, they keep to themselves and don’t like outsiders, but does that mean they’re kidnapping other races for evil human sacrifices and deranged human experiments like Drow? Certainly, they can give off that evil impression, but this is also an oppressed race. A race who is used to being burned at the stake due to the color of their skin. It seems only natural that they would fight fiercely to keep their borders safe, only to protect a surprisingly civil midnight kingdom.

Overall, the Last Field of Honor is a bitter tragedy. It takes places near the end of the two thousand year old conflict, a time when two of the most honorable generals in history battle on the last field of honor. A time when dark plots hatch in the shadows of both kingdoms escalating the bloodshed and driving honor off the battlefield. A time of finger-pointing, accusation and a war spiraling out of control. A time when the two nations, tearing at each other’s throats, take a tumble of a cliff together and come to the brink of utter ruin…

Don’t miss the Chronicles of Covent updates on the official homepage revolving around the Elf Wars Trilogy that are live now! We have added updates to Characters, Races and Creatures. I’m still working on Factions and Places, but stay tuned. You may explore the new characters on the official CoC homepage here.Some of my favorites include General Ka-ling, General Sien, Shade’s old master Sadora (see left…bad Sadora, bad!), Altaar, Kamelin, Ogred the Ogre King, Savorax, Captain Anosh, Duke Qitaar and his loyal wolf Gurlik, and any member of the Bloodburners (Danzig, Winnapeg, Dennithul, Bulgarath and Murkeg, yes, I know they should be locked up).

For those of you wondering about Shade III: The Weeping Grounds, the draft is 85% complete and is Shade’s most earth-moving adventure yet. I’m taking extra time on this book because it is extra special to me, but our readers group is already ranting and raving about it. I’m going to do some more Elf Wars blogs, but we have major announcement we will unveil regarding the cover art for Shade III: The Weeping Grounds as its launch grows closer. I’m hoping to also release Shade III in mid to late 2014.

A special thanks to everyone who has shown interest and support in our insanely overgrown project so far!!!